Election 2024: Campaign Roundup - Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of our Saskatchewan 2024 Campaign Roundup!

With the 2024 SK election underway, we'll be bringing you daily updates on all the policy proclamations, platform promises, and political point-scoring from the campaign trail.

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Campaign Roundup - Day 3:

• The Saskatchewan Party said they will double the Active Families Benefit to $300 per year to help families keep their children in sports and the arts. The party has also committed to doubling the benefit for children with disabilities to $400 per year.
  
  
• The Saskatchewan NDP is demanding that Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe address how emergency rooms became overwhelmed while his government was in power. The NDP used nurses’ union data to suggest that Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital had reached 350% capacity Tuesday night.
  
  
• Jon Hromek, leader of the Saskatchewan United Party, accused both the Saskatchewan Party and the Saskatchewan NDP of having no plan to pay for their promises. Hromek said his party will be reviewing potash royalties and auditing all ministries and departments.
  
  
• The Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan held a media event to lay out a couple of platform points, including a plan to restore the Saskatchewan Transportation Company and to create a new government portfolio - the Ministry of Seniors and Veterans Affairs. Party Leader Phillip Zajac said more platform points will be coming in the next few days.
  
  
• Electronic vote-counting machines will not be used in the 2024 provincial election. Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe said that “a ballot that is cast by hand should be counted by hand”.
  
  
• A Saskatoon political scientist is predicting that this provincial election will be hard to get excited about. He suggests it will focus on minor issues, lacking major events or scandals before voting day on October 28th. He expects the campaign to remain low-key, centered on routine announcements and rallies. What do you think? Are the right issues being tackled?

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